Article ID: CBB740058122

Quantifying evolution by natural selection (2019)

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The theme of this paper is that Fisher's “Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection” has various deficiencies as a quantification of the effect of natural selection in a Mendelian population which are not shared by a new different theorem described in this paper. The deficiencies in Fisher's theorem are listed in this paper. The new theorem focuses on the implications of changes in gene frequencies under natural selection and not, as does the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, on changes in mean population fitness. Whereas the algebra in the new theorem corresponds in places to that in the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, the approach, perspective and conclusion of the new theorem are different from those of the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection.

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Authors & Contributors
Ruse, Michael
Hall, Brian K.
Pierotti, Raymond
Bertoldi, Nicola
Owen, Robin E.
Green, Lisa Anne
Concepts
Genetics
Natural selection
Evolution
Biology
Darwinism
Adaptation (biology)
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
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